Display apparatus with scent disperse device

ABSTRACT

A display apparatus with a scent disperse device comprises a display, a stalk-like member, at least one leaf-like member and a vibrator, in which the stalk-like member is disposed on the display, the leaf-like members are positioned around the stalk-like member and the vibrator is disposed in the stalk-like member and used for driving the leaf-like members to sway. Whereby, a user is allowed to smell a flavor matching the appearance of the display or prefer scent.

CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(a)on Patent Application No(s). 096123111 filed in Taiwan, R.O.C. on 2007Jun. 26, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated byreference.

FIELD OF INVENTION

The present invention relates to a display, and more particularly to adisplay with scent disperse device.

BACKGROUND

A traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) display not only has a large sizeand a heavy weight but also generates radiant rays harmful to human; itgradually loses popularity in the display market because of so manydeficits and is replaced with flat panel displays mainly liquid crystaldisplay (LCD).

Accompanying the appreciation of esthetics economics and voguepopularity, the appearance design of the LCD is more and morediversified. However, the flat panel display in the current market stilltakes plastic and of alloy as main materials for shape modeling, whichsomewhat causes visual rigidity and stiffness. Hence, for allowing thesurface quality of the display to be colorful and varied in postures,manufacturing processes such as paint coating and transfer printing aremostly adopted to process surface treatment and secondary processing toenable the appearance of LCD to attain to the visional emulation effect.

Although the appearance of LCD has already been provided with thevisional emulation effect, it still cannot provide proper and emulativequality of scent matching the appearance of the display. Hence, fordisplay structure to allow it to not only be provided a visionalemulation effect, but also offer a emulative quality of scent matchingthe display and further to built a mood more suitable for programviewing, the present invention is proposed.

SUMMARY

For improving the deficits mentioned above, the present inventiondiscloses a display apparatus with scent disperse device.

The present invention provides a display apparatus with a scent dispersedevice comprising a display, a stalk-like member, at least one leaf-likemember and a vibrator, in which the stalk-like member is disposed on thedisplay; the leaf-like members are positioned around the stalk-likemember; the vibrator is disposed in the stalk-like member, buttedagainst or connected to the leaf-like members and used for driving theleaf-like members to sway.

The stalk-like member and the leaf-like members disposed on the displayaccording to the present invention not only allows the display to beprovided with emulative outlook vision but also enable a user to smell aflavor matching the appearance of the display and his favorite scent soas to attain to the olfaction emulating object.

Besides, the leaf-like members are allowed to sway through the vibratoraccording to the present invention to enable the undulation amplitude ofthe leaf-like member not only to simulate a true leaf swaying state butalso help dispersing scent to attain to the fast scent diffusing effect.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention can be more fully understood by reference to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a schematically perspective view, showing a display apparatuswith scent disperse device of a first preferred embodiment according tothe present invention;

FIG. 2A is a cross sectional view, showing a part A of FIG. 1 in whichleaf-like members are in a static state;

FIG. 2B is a cross sectional view, showing a part A of FIG. 1 in whichleaf-like members are caused to sway;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view, showing a stalk-like member of a displayapparatus with a scent disperse device of a second preferred embodimentaccording to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view, showing a stalk-like member of a displayapparatus with a scent disperse device of a third preferred embodimentaccording to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematically perspective view, showing a display apparatuswith a scent disperse device of a fourth preferred embodiment accordingto the present invention;

FIG. 6A is a schematic view, showing the display apparatus with a scentdisperse device of the fourth preferred embodiment according to thepresent invention in which screen covers are closed;

FIG. 6B is a schematic view, showing the display apparatus with a scentdisperse device of the fourth preferred embodiment according to thepresent invention in which screen covers are opened;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view, showing leaf-like members of a displayapparatus with a scent disperse device of a fifth preferred embodimentaccording to the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view, showing leaf-like members of a displayapparatus with a scent disperse device of a sixth preferred embodimentaccording to the present invention; and

FIG. 9 is a block diagram, showing an electric connection of componentsof the display apparatus with a scent disperse device of the firstpreferred embodiment according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Please refer to FIGS. 1, 2A and 2B. FIG. 1 is a schematicallyperspective view, showing a display apparatus with scent disperse deviceof a first preferred embodiment according to the present invention. FIG.2A is a cross sectional view, showing a part A of FIG. 1 in whichleaf-like members are in a static state. FIG. 2B is a cross sectionalview, showing a part A of FIG. 1 in which leaf-like members are causedto sway.

A scent disperse display apparatus 1 comprises a display 10, astalk-like member 20, a plurality of leaf-like members 30 and a vibrator40.

A periphery of the display 10 is provided with a body with shape similarto a fruit and a stalk-like member 20 is disposed on the display 10, inwhich sides of the stalk-like member 20 are disposed with leaf-likemembers 30 to allow the entire appearance looking like a fruit (e.g.apple, orange) and have an emulative outlook vision thereof. Besides, avibrator 40 butted against or connected to the leaf-like members 30 isdisposed in the stalk-like member 20 and used for driving the leaf-likemembers 30 to sway, in which the undulation amplitude of the leaf-likemember 30 simulate a true leaf swaying state. Furthermore, an elasticelement 41 butted against or connected to the leaves is disposed belowthe vibrator 40 and used for supporting the vibrator 40. Here, theelastic element 41 can be a spring or an element capable of elasticallysupporting the vibrator 40.

The stalk-like member 20 mentioned above comprises a housing 21, afragrant material 22 and a plurality of disperse holes 23, in which thefragrant material 22 is stored in the housing 21 and used for generatingscent and the plurality of disperse holes 23 are disposed on the surfaceof the housing 21 and allows the fragrant material 22 to disperse thescent outward through the disperse holes 23. Please refer to FIGS. 2A,2B and 9 simultaneously. A piezoelectric sheet 24, a circuit board 25and a power supply 26 can be further installed in the housing 21according to the present invention, in which the circuit board 25 isrespectively electrically connected to the vibrator 40, thepiezoelectric sheet 24 and the power supply 26. The power supply 26 isused for providing power source for the circuit board 25; logicoperation and signal transceiver circuits (not shown in the figure) aredisposed on the circuit board 25 and used for receiving, operating andtransmitting signals with specific functions or specific receivingterminal (e.g. the piezoelectric sheet 24 and the vibrator 40 in thepresent embodiment); the piezoelectric sheet 24 is conducted to generateheat energy to cause the fragrant material 22 to disperse scent outwardafter receiving a conducting signal S2 transmitted from the circuitboard 25.

In addition, the display apparatus 1 according to the present inventionfurther comprises a sensor switch 50 electrically connected to thecircuit board 25 and can be disposed on the display 10 or in thestalk-like member 20 as FIG. 2A shows. The sensor switch 50 willtransmit a starting signal S1 to the circuit board 25 after beingactivated. Thereafter, the circuit board 25 alone further transmit theaforementioned conducting signal S2 to the piezoelectric sheet 24 tocause it to be conducted to generate heat energy after the circuit board25 receives and operates the starting signal S1 or further transmit avibrating signal S3 to the vibrator 40 at the same time to start thevibrator 40 to drive the leaf-like members 30 to sway simultaneously.Here, the sensor switch 50 processes sensing through infrared ray(infrared ray sensor switch) or light shielding effect (light shieldingsensor switch).

Therefore, when a user moves near to the display 10, the sensor switch50 will sense the approach of the user and activate the heating of thepiezoelectric sheet 24 and the vibrator 40 as mentioned above to causethe fragrant material 23 to disperse scent outward via the disperseholes 23 and drive the leaf-like members 30 to sway up and down throughthe vibrator 40 to boost the scent to disperse quickly so as to enablethe user to smell the scent matching the appearance of the display 10(e.g. smell of an apple or orange) and in the meantime, the vision andthe smell emulations can be attained simultaneously.

Please refer to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a schematic view, showing a stalk-likemember 20 of a display apparatus with a scent disperse device of asecond preferred embodiment according to the present invention.

The stalk-like member 20 of the present invention can be manufactured bymixing the rubber or plastic material with fragrance; scent is generatedthrough the fragrance and quickly disperse through the boosting of thevertical swaying of the leaf-like member 30 so as to allow the user tosmell the scent when he moves near to the display 10.

Besides, a plurality of fragrance micelles 211, which can sensefriction, temperature or electric field to generate scent, can bedisposed on a surface of the housing 21, in which a diameter of thefragrance micelle 211 is 5 to 5000 micrometers, but the fragrancemicelle 211 with diameter over 20 micrometers can rather exhibit theeffect of the present invention. Whereby, the stalk-like member 20 isallowed to disperse the scent for a long period of time and the user canalso use hand temperature, friction and etc to bring the fragrancemicelles 211 to generate scent by touching the stalk-like member 20 toattain to the scent disperse controlling object.

When the sensor switch 50 senses the approach of the user, it willtransmit a starting signal S1 to the circuit board 25 as described inthe first embodiment, the circuit board 25 then transmit a vibratingsignal S3 to cause the vibrator 40 to vibrate after the operationthereof and the vibrator 40 drives the leaf-like members 30 to sway toassist the scent to be disperse to enable it to spread quickly to allowthe user to smell the scent matching the appearance of the display 10and in the meantime, the vision and the olfaction emulation objects andbe attained.

Please refer to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a schematic view, showing a stalk-likemember 20 of a display apparatus with a scent disperse device of a thirdpreferred embodiment according to the present invention.

According to the structure disclosed by the present invention, afragrance insert 212 used for generating scent can also be installed onthe housing 21. When the vibrator 40 drives the leaf-like members 30 tosway up and down, it can help the scent of the fragrance insert 212 todisperse quickly. Besides, a new fragrance insert 212 can also bereplaced to maintain the scent from the stalk-like member 20 when thescent fragrance insert 212 on the housing 21 fades.

Please refer to FIGS. 5, 6A, 6B and 9. FIG. 5 is a schematicallyperspective view, showing a display apparatus with a scent dispersedevice of a fourth preferred embodiment according to the presentinvention. FIG. 6A is a schematic view, showing the display apparatuswith a scent disperse device of the fourth preferred embodimentaccording to the present invention in which screen covers are closed.FIG. 6B is a schematic view, showing the display apparatus with a scentdisperse device of the fourth preferred embodiment according to thepresent invention in which screen covers are opened. FIG. 9 is a blockdiagram, showing an electric connection of components of the displaywith a scent disperse device of the first preferred embodiment accordingto the present invention.

The display apparatus 1 with a scent disperse device according to thepresent invention further comprises a remote controller 60, and thedisplay 10 comprises a screen 11 and a plurality of screen cover 12, inwhich the screen cover 12 are electrically connected to the sensorswitch 50 so as to allow them to be opened or closed through the sensorswitch, the user can transmit a first starting signal R1 through theremote controller 60 to start the display 10 and chose a program that hewants to view. Besides, the remote controller 60 can use theaforementioned first starting signal R1 or further transmits a secondstarting signal R2 to start the sensor switch 50, the sensor switch 50then starts the piezoelectric sheet 24 and the vibrator 40 electricallyconnected therewith through the circuit board 25 as described in thefirst embodiment to cause the fragrant material 22 to disperse scentoutward through the disperse holes 23 and drive the leaf-like members 30to sway up and down to help the scent to be dispersed quickly throughthe vibrator 40. Moreover, because the screen cover 12 is electricallyconnected to the screen 11, when the screen cover are opened, a startingsignal ON is transmitted to start the power supply of the screen 11 andvice versa, when the screen cover are closed, a close signal OFF is sentout to close the power source of the screen 11.

A surface constituting material of the remote controller 60 can bemanufactured by mixing the rubber or plastic material with fragrance soas to generate scent through the fragrance. Besides, a surface of theremote controller can also disposed with a plurality of fragrancemicelles 61; a dimension of the fragrance micelle 61 is the same as thefragrance micelle 211 mentioned above, and the fragrance micelle 61 cansense friction, temperature or electric field to generate scent. Whenthe user operates the remote controller 60, he can use hand temperatureto bring the fragrance micelles 91 to generate scent so as to controlthe disperse of the scent of the fragrance micelles 61.

Furthermore, a fragrance insert 62 can also be further installed on theremote controller 60 so as to generate scent through the fragranceinsert 62 and maintain the scent disperse by the remote controller 60 byreplacing it with a new fragrance insert 62.

Please refer to FIG. 7. FIG. 7 is a schematic view, showing leaf-likemembers 30 of a display apparatus with a scent disperse device of afifth preferred embodiment according to the present invention.

The leaf-like members 30 of the present invention can be manufactured bymixing rubber or plastic material with fragrance, and the leaf-likemembers 30 are driven to sway to help the scent to be dispersed quicklythrough the vibrator 40 so as to allow the user to smell scent when hemoves near to the display 10.

According to the structure disclosed by the present invention, aplurality of fragrance micelles 31 can also be installed in theleaf-like members 30, in which a dimension of the fragrance micelle isthe same as the fragrance micelle 211 mentioned above, and the fragrancemicelle 21 can sense friction, temperature or electric field to generatescent so as to allow the stalk-like member 20 to disperse scent in along time, to allow the user to use hand temperature, friction and etcto bring the fragrance micelles 31 to generate scent by touching theleaf-like members 30 so as to control the disperse of the scent of thefragrance micelles 61.

When the scent disperses by the leaf-like members 30 fades, they can bereplaced with new leaf-like members 30 to maintain the scent.

Please refer to FIG. 8. FIG. 8 is a schematic view, showing leaf-likemembers 30 of a display apparatus with a scent disperse device of asixth preferred embodiment according to the present invention.

Besides, a plurality of fragrance insert 32 used for generating scentcan also be installed on the leaf-like members 30. When the vibrator 40drives the leaf-like members 30 to sway up and down, it can help thescent of the fragrance insert 32 to be dispersed quickly. Furthermore,when the scent of the fragrance insert 32 on the leaves 30 fades, theycan be replaced with new fragrance insert 32 to maintain the scent.

The entire appearance of the display 10, the stalk-like member 20 andthe leaf-like members 30 is allowed to look like a fruit (e.g. apple,orange) through the structure disclosed by the present invention; it isprovided with a emulative outlook vision and allows the stalk-likemember 20 and the leaf-like members 30 to disperse scent in themeantime, the vertical swaying of the leaf-like members 30 helps thescent disperse, allows the user to smell the scent (e.g. apple scent,orange scent) matching the appearance of the display 10. Whereby, thevision and the olfaction emulation objects can be attainedsimultaneously and the mood more suitable for viewing a program can befurther built. Besides, the user can use hand temperature, friction andetc to bring the stalk-like member 20 and the leaf-like members 30 togenerate scent so as to enable the user to control the disperse of thescent. Furthermore, when the scent fades, the weakening scent componentcan be replaced with a new one to maintain the scent disperse by thedisplay apparatus of the present invention.

The component inbuilt with the plurality of scent micelles 211, 31 or 61mentioned above can be manufactured by means of pouring or injectionafter the fragrance micelles 211, 34 or 61 are added into rubber orplastic material particles and uniformly stirred. The technology ofplacing the fragrance micelles 211, 31 or 61 into the rubber or plasticis adopted in the present invention to improve a peculiar and unbearablesmell of a convention rubber or plastic material and increase the termof validity of dispersing a scent.

Additional advantages and modifications will readily occur to thoseskilled in the art. Therefore, the invention in its broader aspects isnot limited to the specific details and representative embodiments shownand described herein. Accordingly, various modifications may be madewithout departing from the spirit or scope of the general inventiveconcept as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

1. A display apparatus with a scent disperse device, comprising: adisplay; a stalk shaped member, disposed on the display; wherein thestalk shaped member comprises a housing; a fragrant material, stored inthe housing; and at least one dispersing spray hole, positioned on asurface of the housing, the fragrant material dispersing scent outwardthrough the at least one dispersing spray hole; at least one leaf shapedmember, disposed around the stalk shaped member; and a vibrator,disposed in the stalk shaped member, butted against or connected to theleaf shaped members and used for driving the leaf shaped members to swaywherein said vibrator comprises an elastic element, disposed below thevibrator, butted against or connected to the leaf shaped members, andused for supporting the vibrator.
 2. The display apparatus according toclaim 1, further comprising a piezoelectric sheet, disposed in closeproximity to the fragrant material in the housing, used for electricalconduction to generate heat energy to cause the fragrant material todisperse scent outward.
 3. The display apparatus according to claim 2,further comprising a circuit board and a power supply, disposed in thestalk shaped member, the circuit board being electrically connected tothe vibrator, the piezoelectric sheet and the power supply, the powersupply being used for providing a power source for the circuit, and thecircuit board being used for receiving, operating or transmitting asignal with a specific function.
 4. The display apparatus according toclaim 3, further comprising a sensor switch, electrically connected tothe circuit board, used for transmitting a starting signal to thecircuit board after being activated, a conducting signal being thentransmitted to the piezoelectric sheet to allow electrical conduction ofthe piezoelectric sheet to generate heat energy after the circuit boardreceives and operates the starting signal.
 5. The display apparatusaccording to claim 3, further comprising a sensor switch, electricallyconnected to the circuit board, used for transmitting a starting signalto the circuit board after being activated, a conducting signal beingthen transmitted to the vibrator to allow the vibrator to vibrate afterthe circuit board receives and operates the starting signal.